Skeptical Thinking Is Critical to Achieving Better Sound
Playwright George Bernard Shaw on why we need unreasonable people:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
When the conventional wisdom turns out to be correct — in other words, when it comports with reality, we are happy to temporarily put aside our skepticism and learn the some lessons.
Why? Because the experimental evidence supports it.
When rules of thumb work, they’re very handy for the amateur record collector looking for better than average sound. It’s all the times that they don’t work that are the problem — the exceptions to the rule, especially if one of those exceptions just happens to be a favorite album of yours.
Then you’re really up a creek. You followed a general rule that usually works, but has in this case failed, and now you really don’t have any other way to find a solution to your problem.
Fortunately for readers of this blog, we do, and we share that knowledge with you.
We pride ourselves on being unreasonable when it comes to the garbage that is being foisted on unsuspecting record buyers.











